Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:42 pm

Huffs Nooch

Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:41 amPosts: 131Location: San Jose, CA

fruitbat wrote:

beanspark wrote:

One of the positive parts of being extremely poor is that I have to plan all my dinners in advance.

I'm too uninspired to plan my meals! I'm working through my freezer stash instead (the positive side of being a squirrel?).

I have a natural instinct to squirrel, because my parents have two refrigerators and a chest freezer. Unfortunately I only have one fridge with a cramped little freezer, and I fill it up with frozen fruit, bread, flour, etc. >< Someday I will have a glorious chest freezer for lazy meals!

This week~leftover pumpkin-baked penne, salads during class dayscurried udon stir fry from Vconinarizushieating out one day

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:46 am

Vegan Vegan Vegan Vegan Vegan

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:18 pmPosts: 4163Location: Portland, OR

ScooterDiva wrote:

Anyone have any ideas for fresh asparagus? All I ever do it roast it - I'd like to have it in a pasta dish or as a salad with some kind of vinaigrette.

I adore it grilled - either on a bbq, grill pan or George Foreman, if you must, or ala the sesame asparagus in VWAV. Shaved in a salad is good, too, and I've had it in paninis before with almond cheese, basil, tomato and lemon...

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:26 pm

Attended Chelsea Clinton's Wedding

Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:26 pmPosts: 208Location: ITH

-Horseradish dressing for the salad greens from last week I never finished.-Tonight: pizza with roasted red pepper and tomato sauce with olives and mushrooms. Some gross modification of the sanctuary dip for cucumber and carrots. Raspberry lemon cheesecake for the end.-Snobby joes for later in the week.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:24 pm

WELFARIST!

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:57 pmPosts: 5368

I just made a batch of chorizo sausages from Viva Vegan to use in recipes. I have to use it in the vegan hash I'll make tomorrow or Monday (waiting for my avocado to properly ripen, so depending on when that is) and I'll freeze the rest.

I have two test recipes to make this week from Isa's upcoming book. One is a sammich that sounds delish and I'll make tomorrow for sure and the other is a hash melange. Yummers.

I also bought the fixins' for the pate from Veganomicon to spread on some olive focaccia I made and froze a couple of weeks ago for quick lunches through the week.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:33 pm

Lactose Intolerant...Literally

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:27 pmPosts: 722

Chris has been unemployed for a some time and, while being broke sucks, it was nice to have him home every evening to make dinner. Coming home to dinner nearly on the table was awesome. Fortunately he's working again so we're back to easy to whip up dinners instead of multi-course extravaganzas.

On the menu this week:

Chorizo and scrambled tofu w/ tortillas and garlicky kaleMushroom pesto campanelle w/spring greens saladWho Cares mac and cheese (subbing sunflower seeds for pine nuts and cutting the EB in half) with broccoliChinese chop salad (reverse engineered from a favorite at a local place that I learned was non-vegan).Asparagus risotto w/spring greens salad

I was apparently craving salad when making the shopping list.

_________________"Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.""You know who doesn't care if you're a fat vegan? The animals." Isa

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:27 am

Impressive boner

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:57 pmPosts: 4282Location: Nottingham.

This week I'm making lots of crustless mini quiches and baked tofu to go with salads, soup and 40 clove chickpeas and broccoli. There's still lots of food left from last Sunday's cooking marathon left in the freezer.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:35 am

Drunk Dialed Ian MacKaye

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:06 pmPosts: 2001Location: Windmill Central

Sunday is always pizza night here - we're doing our usual cashew ricotta over store-bought crust with veggies, but this time I mixed some frozen chopped spinach into the ricotta. Next week we have plans to do a "crazy" pizza night. Boyfriend is in charge of coming up with the toppings ideas.

Staple cooking: I made a double batch of cashew tofu ricotta - some for the pizza and the rest for the freezer. I'm so glad it freezes well. Later this week I'm making a double batch of the steamed white seitan (Viva Vegan) for the freezer and some tempeh meatballs (I'm trying a Vegan Dad recipe).

Lunches: Mixing up some tofu egg salad for sandwiches and steaming some veggies to have in my salads. I find I eat more veggies in my salads if they're lightly steamed than if I have to tear through them raw. I have no idea why, but I'm even eating carrots now. I usually hate them!

Snacks: I made two types of muffins this past week - Carrot Spice and Zucchini Walnut - but I'm planning on making a batch of the Banana Wheat Germ muffins from Veganomicon and adding in some chocolate chips. I usually freeze half the batch of muffins and take them as snacks at work. I've got a good stash going in the freezer so far.